Thought Leaders: New Research from Hitotsubashi ICS

Apr 15, 2025

ICS is home to thought leaders. Here's a roundup of recently published work by our faculty:

Sungchul Noh sheds light on how historical myths shared across generational divides, explores organizational judgment changes in occupational communities, and collaborated on a study about cross-occupational coordination and memory:

Sung-Chul Noh, Boram Do, Matt Lyle
Generation Gap? The Branching Influence of Historical Myths in Organization Science
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2022.16982

Kyoung-Hee Yuu and Sung-Chul Noh
"Forsaking an Organization in Favor of Another: Judgment Change in an Occupational Community" in Work and Occupations
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07308884241237253

Sung-Chul Noh, Matthew C. B. Lyle, Boram Do
"We Can Win this Fight Together': Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination" in Journal of Management Studies
https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13146

Shingo Oue, Erica Okada, Satoko Suzuki, and Satoshi Akutsu identify a new brand personality factor that most strongly impacts consumers' desire to buy. (forthcoming in 2025):

Shingo Oue, Erica Okada, Satoko Suzuki, and Satoshi Akutsu
"A Winning Combination for Brand Personality" in Advances in Consumer Research

Satoko Suzuki and co-authors examine the impact of workplace gender composition on career satisfaction across 35 societies including Japan:

Satoko Suzuki, et. al.
"Gender composition at work and women's career satisfaction: An international study of 35 societies" in Human Resource Management Journal
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1748-8583.12570

Satoko Suzuki and co-authors examine the effect of communication tools on satisfaction with cultural attractions, featuring kabuki (Japanese traditional theater performance):

Satoko Suzuki, Kosuke Takemura, & Ken Fujiwara
"A Satisfaction with Cultural Attractions: Interaction Effect of Tourists' Regulatory Focus and Cultural Attractions' Interpretation Tools" in Tourism Recreation Research
https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2024.2386870